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Hi vizzah. These are all Enterprise Evaluation versions of Windows for the most part and they all expire. We recommend you download once, take a snapshot BEFORE first use, then after 90 days revert to the snapshot. Not ideal I know as you still lose any changes you did to the image but saves you downloading again and configuring. Apologies for that bit of pain.

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Per the blog post listed from modern.ie, the IE6 VMs expire after 90 days and the others become crippled after 90 days. Sounds like more of the same.

http://blog.reybango.com/2013/02/04/making-internet-explorer...

Just take a snapshot of your VM after you have configured it the way you like. I do this with VMWare. When 90 days goes by, roll back to that snap shot.

take note of anything you upgraded since so you can create a new 90 day snapshot with more of the recent updates

And often MS people would forget to upload updated VM.

The great irony is I ended up hacking legal VMs. At least they're better about it now.